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Specialised services offering to wrap up SMSF was not an adverse trend but a sign of the maturing of the SMSF sector....
Superannuation
Professional associations should take over setting CPD standards if adviser standards are to improve, SPAA argued. ...
Superannuation
The standard of retirement income products needs to be lifted to that of SMSFs to fit in with a well-working retirement system...
Superannuation
Self-Managed Superannuation Fund service providers with origins in accounting tend to be bigger and more profitable than those that started out as financial planner or ad...
Financial planning
Industry advocate groups have broadly welcomed the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) interim report’s vow to lift the education bar for advisers, but one has questioned the ...
Policy & Regulation
Industry lobbyists are giving the Federal Government’s decision to plough ahead with the implementation of some elements of the Future of Financial Advice reforms a mixed...
Financial planning
SPAA claims that explanatory statements to FOFA amendments will be ineffective and best interest duty and conflicted remuneration should be defined within legislation....
Superannuation
SMSF trustees need to implement their financial strategies by 30 June to get the best outcomes for their funds, the SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australia claims....
Superannuation
ATO will begin action against SMSFs yet to lodge returns and cancel inactive funds...
Superannuation
With the increased scrutiny of self-managed super funds (SMSF) from the regulator, the soon-to-be-introduced penalty regime for trustees and the increasing diligence of S...
Superannuation
Flow-on effects of lifting the pension age to 70 could see older Australians grow reliant on other social security benefits, says SPAA....
Editorial
With post-retirement planning emerging as a major issue in 2014, Andrew Gale argues that there needs to be less focus on products and more focus on advice-based solutions...
Superannuation
SPAA has used its submission to the Financial Systems Inquiry to restate its claim that SMSFs are appropriately regulated. ...
Superannuation
SPAA supports ASIC’s drive for tougher measures to tackle the 'bad apples’ of the financial services industry....
Superannuation
SPAA has urged the Financial System Inquiry to look at ways the growing SMSF capital pool can be unlocked to help fund productive Australian investment that benefits the ...
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My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...
Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...
How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...